Snagit works great with PowerPoint, but it helps if you change the setting to match your workflow. Here's how you can more effectively work with PowerPoint if you are setting up a presentation.

So, you've decided to write a book and are working with Snagit? We'll if your publishing company or editor told you that your images need to 120-300 DPI, then you'll need to know how to do that with Snagit. Here's how I do it. Let me know if you know of a better way.

If you're new to Snagit and screen capture, this little video is the very basics of capturing something on your screen and putting the image in a email. This works with Word, PowerPoint, and any other program that can accept pictures.

This one has tripped me up before. Here we talk about the "Create as Vector" option available under the Effects.

Snagit has a global hotkey that uses the last profile selected. This global hotkey is set from the program preferences. Here I show you how to set the preference.

Each profile in Snagit can have an individual hotkey. This makes it very easy to start a specific type of capture.

Because Snagit automatically stores images that you have captured, you can end up with a lot of captures hanging around. Here I talk about how to close or delete a file from Snagit.

The eye dropper tool makes it easy to switch and change colors as well as match colors in your capture. Thankfully, there's a simple hotkey in Snagit for the eye dropper.

If you need to export all your images from Snagit there are two ways to do this.

If you're putting screen captures into a document or book that will be printed, you need to understand DPI (dots per inch) and how the pixels on your screen effect the quality of printed material.